Word: dank
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tours, rotten in their ntirety. This was because they'd all get drunk and beat each other up onstage. Which was particularly true of the brothers Davies. Ray, older and larger, could be relied upon to smack his brother, Dave, younger and smaller, around numerous stages in equally numerous dank halls across America. No more. Ray has coupled his social insights with his instinctive love of vaudeville as it appeared in English music halls, and transformed his band of drunken louts into a drunken semi-pro Long Island lounge band. The Kinks have become my favorite band since last November...
...even a cobbler. But having sung on the side all the while, she felt ready to try out for Blanche Coleman's all-girl band. "Good pipes," they told her, "but can you play a bass?" Fortunately for Dankworth and her later career, she could not. Even with Dank-worth's band, she felt after a few years like a "necessary evil" and decided that it was necessary to strike out on her own. What she found waiting for her out there was mostly straight acting parts in London's West End, notably the lead in Tony...
...stage version of Man of La Mancha from racking up 2,328 performances in New York City alone, besides being translated into almost as many tongues as the King James Bible. Nor has it forestalled this epically vulgar movie. Dale Wasserman's script plunks Cervantes down in a dank dungeon to await his trial by the Inquisition; there he performs Don Quixote as a charade for the amusement and instruction of his fellow prisoners. Peter O'Toole acts both Cervantes and Quixote about as well as Wasserman has written them, although to his credit, he looks a little...
...here as a Moscow commissar, sporting the kind of heavy leather trench coat that suggests Slavic villainy the way a black stetson in a western signals evil. He takes special delight in tor turing Jews. After inflicting one especially impassioned beating, Harvey makes his way out of the traditionally dank subterranean cell as an awestruck underling inquires, "What now? Are you going back to the office...
...back to the grand jury room on the 11th floor of the dank federal building in Boston's Post Office Square, where Popkin appeared before the jury once again, but refused to answer three of its questions. At that point, a few doors down the hall, the government decided to move for the first time to have Popkin found in contempt of court...